Sometimes writing article on Wiki is like planting a seed and watching it grow with amazing speed. Just few days ago - on 2nd Nov - I created a stub for flame tank. Over past 4 days it increased in size well over 10-times...
Wikipedia goal is to collect all human knowledge. Looking at examples like that I belive that it can do it in less then one decade.
And if that happens, who will want to use printed encyclopedias or dictonaries? When the ex-CEO of Britannica predicts that they are as doomed as dinosaurs...I am not the one to argue.
Onward, to the new world. One more tradition bites the dust.
Nine South Asian language communities come together to document their oral
culture via Wikimedia projects
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The Indic Oral Culture Project successfully concluded its pilot phase, a
collaborative effort to document and preserve the region’s oral heritage
with the ...
2 days ago
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